About Me

My life was described by one of my editors as “impossibly exotic” – although really it was not my life, but me, that was the exotic, the uprooted plant, the one who didn’t belong, always living in someone else’s backyard...
Now I am back in Australia, the returning native learning to live where I was born. Writer, traveler, environmentalist. Author of The Isles of Glory trilogy (The Aware, Gilfeather, The Tainted); The Mirage Makers trilogy (Heart of the Mirage, The Shadow of Tyr, Song of the Shiver Barrens) and, writing as Glenda Noramly, a stand-alone book Havenstar. The latest trilogy is called The Watergivers in Australia and the Stormlord trilogy elsewhere: THE LAST STORMLORD, STORMLORD RISING, STORMLORD'S EXILE

LATEST:
THE FORSAKEN LANDS
The story of a clash of cultures and magic as traders and buccaneers of the Va-cherished Hemisphere hunt for spices and wealth in the Va-forsaken half of the world ... even as the unidentified darkness of plague and murder stalks their own land.
THE LASCAR'S DAGGER available worldwide now!

Tuesday, November 13, 2007

The postman delivers...sometimes.

This post is inspired by Karen Miller's blog the other day, when she said how she loves getting the flats for a book. (That's the cover, already printed, without the inner pages.) She put her latest in a frame on the wall...well, I don't think I'll be doing that with The Shadow of Tyr.

The other day someone left something on my gate that vaguely resembled a letter. I opened it up and there it was - the flats from Orbit for The Shadow of Tyr, out in December in UK.And here's the picture of what it looked like, crumpled and filthy, envelope included. It had obviously been kicking around in a ditch for some time - in fact the envelope looks as if it has had a hole burned in it.

The postal pixies had obviously had a field day - especially as the letter inside was dated August...

Fortunately I had already received (safely) the whole book, so I wasn't too upset - but one wonders about the Malaysian postal service! I suspect the person who put it on my gate was a kind neighbour who found it somewhere or other after, I suspect, the postman had not bothered to put it into the postbox properly.

Anyway, don't forget, you UK readers - the book should be hitting your bookstores in a couple of weeks - and the cover looks a whole lot better than the above picture...

5 comments:

I'm looking forward to buying it once it reaches Malaysia. I read the first one when I was in Sabah for my honeymoon last month and thought it was a good and fresh take on the fantasy genre. I'm surprised more Roman-inspired fantasies aren't written!

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BEST FANTASY NOVEL OF THE YEAR Shortlisted Finalist2003: for The Aware; 2004: for The Tainted; 2006: for Heart of the Mirage; 2007: for The Song of the Shiver Barrens; 2009: for The Last Stormlord 2010: for Stormlord Rising 2011: for Stormlord's Exile